Example sentences of "[pron] gives me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like you say , someone gives me the willies . |
| 2 | The second and third weekend I get to the lake just before daybreak armed with a pair of binoculars and settle down for a couple of hours in a spot which gives me a good view of all , or most , of the water . |
| 3 | Then I solved the problem by getting a special radar device installed in my brain , which gives me a headache . |
| 4 | I always feel happier or calmer with a pen in my hand , for writing is the one activity which gives me an unquestionable dignity and , if I may dare to claim it , an unconquerable pride . |
| 5 | ‘ I go to a lot of fellowship meetings and I see a counsellor once a week which gives me the tools to handle life on a day-to-day basis . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 7 | She gives me a little smile and I feel a bit better . |
| 8 | Because I am 84 and live alone , she also pops in every morning and evening to ensure I am all right , and she gives me a bath once a week . |
| 9 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 10 | She gives me a valium . |
| 11 | She gives me a lot of stick for it . |
| 12 | So I see her on leaves , and she gives me every so often a new MCC tie ! ’ |
| 13 | I would n't say she gives me an ecstatic welcome . |
| 14 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 15 | As I had requested , I had Pauline for massage ; I always find she gives me the best massage I have anywhere in the world . |
| 16 | She has n't , of course , but she gives me the landlord 's name . |
| 17 | I said who gives me a . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyone who gives me the information that leads to these people will get the reward money , ’ he said . |
| 19 | He gives me a completely guileless smile . |
| 20 | And he gives me a look of a kind that I do n't altogether like . |
| 21 | Here are some examples : ( 202 ) He gives me a stroke on the head with his cane ; bids me carry that to my master . |
| 22 | Well , you know , practically , the governor or the head you see , he knows what he 's got ta work , but erm , I , I know because the lads do n't , but he generally tells them well I wan na work so and so and he gives me a bit of paper with the horses names on wants galloping . |
| 23 | What I was going to do was erm just get a good quality joiner have he gives me a price for doing that and then I basically sell the advertising . |
| 24 | He gives me a lift to work . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , I want the Eubank return and Iran Barkley as well because he gives me the fear I thrive on , ’ said Benn . |
| 26 | When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel . |
| 27 | Cati said , ‘ I 've told you , he gives me the shivers , I think he made a spell and did things to my head . |
| 28 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 29 | " He gives me the creeps , " she angrily cried , protesting about Timothy Gedge as Mrs Blakey had . |
| 30 | He gives me the address of a boarding house he could stay at in Earls Court . |